There’s something very Victorian and steampunk-esque about the GM6 Lynx. It has the proportions of a steam locomotive or a traction engine, and its mechanism ker-chunks back and forth like an ancient machine tool. But there’s also an element of Starship Troopers in its monstrous bullpup design. While none of us would want to spend an entire afternoon plinking tin cans with it, it got us rethinking our abusive relationship with big-bore rifles. For a .50 BMG, this one’s actually pretty fun to shoot.
The GM6 is a bit of an anomaly in that unlike most semi-auto centerfire rifles, it eschews any form of gas operation. Instead, it borrows its layout from a shotgun, the venerable Browning A5, first produced in 1902 and designed by the prophet (pbuh) John Moses Browning. JMB went on to use the same long recoil mechanism in the Remington Model 8 rifle introduced in 1905, which in turn inspired the Worst Machinegun of WWI, the Chauchat. After that, the development of long
